An 18-year-old girl murdered by an escaped convict from a Louisiana prison this week was the step-daughter of an assistant warden at the correctional facility. KTBS reports that Deltra Henderson, an inmate at the David Wade Correctional Center in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Amanda Leigh Carney, 18, as he stole her car in an attempt to …
A Utah man aboard a Princess Cruises ship headed towards in Alaska was arrested for the murder of his wife, federal court documents confirm. According to court documents, Kenneth Manzanares reportedly killed his spouse, Kristy Manzanares, 39, while they were on a a seven-day cruise from Seattle to the Tracy Arm, near Juneau, Alaska. A witness aboard the ship asked …
A Princeton, Massachusetts, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Google executive who vanished during a jog last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, entered the plea in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Worcester Telegram, Colon-Ortiz is accused of strangling Vanessa Marcotte, 27, who was visiting her mother and disappeared during a run on …
Police in central Illinois are confronting a new reality that Robert Bee, Jr., will most likely not be found safely, and appear resigned to the strong possibility that it was the missing 13-year-old boy’s remains found on a property near a wooded area in Pekin earlier this week. Peking Police Detective Seth Ranney told the …
A mother and her adult son are facing prison time the murder of the woman’s estranged husband and the man’s father. Craig Rideout’s body was discovered last July in a wooded area in Yates County, New York. On the same day, his sister found Laura Rideout, Craig’s estranged wife, cleaning the home where Craig lived. …
Massachusetts police have made an arrest in a case involving a grieving family that allegedly found their loved one’s limbs in a backpack, according to the Boston Herald. Investigators actually picked up Kathryn Podgurski, 33, prior to Monday’s discovery, as noted by The Enterprise. The medical examiner determined that Podgurski’s boyfriend, 44-year-old Joseph Shaw, was stabbed …
A baby delivered by C-section in Montreal, Canada, after his mother was attacked on Monday, died hours after delivery. Legal experts claim that the death makes the baby a victim of homicide. CBCNews reports that on early Monday morning, a little after 2 a.m., a husband repeatedly stabbed his wife several times inside their Montreal apartment, off of …
A Georgia man appeared in a Gwinnett County court on Monday for the death of his wife on their one-year wedding anniversary. The Gwinnett Daily Post reports that Walter Lowe, 51, turned himself in to authorities over the weekend after his wife of one year, Erica Powell, 46, was found with a gunshot wound to her head. According to …
Police have arrested a Maryland teen and charged him with murder after he allegedly beat his mother to death with a hammer last week. Andrew Zaragoza, 16, has been charged as an adult in connection with the July 20 death of 56-year-old Donna Zaragoza, according to The Baltimore Sun. Zaragoza does not have a criminal record …
A New York woman whose fiancé died while on a kayaking trip admitted to pulling the drain plug on his kayak in a guilty plea to negligent homicide. ABC 7 reports that Angelika Graswald pleaded guilty on Monday to the lesser offense, two years after she was charged with felony second-degree murder in the May 2015 drowning …
The arrest of Mark Redwine for the 2013 murder of his 13-year-old son Dylan has been four years coming, but it is no surprise to the boy’s mother. Elaine Hall has fought hard to convince investigators that her ex-husband killed her son and hid his bodies on a Colorado mountain. Dylan didn’t want to board …
Police say the woman may have taken her own life because of “the stress of finding out her mother was dead.”
